Raster Image Files

Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray) created the POV file extension, which is a three-dimensional graphic image stored in ASCII text format. The software is a cross-platform ray-tracing program capable of generating pictures from a given text description. It is a pure renderer and users need to attach a third-party software capable of modelling for it […]

SGD belongs to the Raster image files group. Developed by Syngene, it is a binary file extension that GeneSnap uses to store electrophoretic gel images. These images are useful in understanding the DNA and RNA, along with their fragments. It complies with the GLP (Good Laboratory Practices) and cannot be modified after saving. GeneSnap allows […]

PP5 is a part of the CorelDraw Graphics Suite package. It refers to the native format of the Corel Picture Publisher v5 which is an image editing program. It is a proprietary format and Micrografx previously owned it. The format stores bitmap images but was discontinued by Corel soon. Different versions of the Picture Publisher […]

Developed at Silicon Graphics, the SGI file format is a native graphics format used by its workstations. It is a binary format raster image file which can store anything between 8 to 32-bits per pixels. These files are similar to RGB format images and support RLE (Run-Length Encoding) for limiting the file size. It is […]

Micrografx created the PPF file extension which contains a bitmap image. Corel later acquired it and discontinued it later, but you can still access files with this extension using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2020 software. PPF stores images from Picture Publisher version 6,7,8,9, and 10.

Developed by MIT Media Lab, Scratch 2.0 uses the SPRITE2 for storing its graphics file. The program is for kids and is a block-based visual concept. It allows the users to create online projects, and since its inception, it has been converted in more than 70 languages. It gets its name from “scratching” and lets […]

The Portable Pixmap (PPM) format stores 24-bit color images. The files are in text format, and each pixel gets a number between 0 and 65536. It is an uncompressed format which means the size of the final output is generally larger than some of its peers, making it less popular amongst the users. Along with […]

Created by Atari, the SPU file extension was used by Spectrum 512. It belongs to the binary format raster group of images. The Spectrum 512 supports a maximum of 512 colours and is a graphics application that operated on the Atari ST systems. It is no longer in use and considered obsolete presently.

Adobe Photoshop has two file extensions. If you are saving a file up to 30000*30000 pixels, it will use the PSD format. If you are storing anything exceeding than that and up to 300000*300000, the PSB (Photoshop Big) file extension comes into play. It can range up to 4 EB (i.e. exceeding 4.2 billion GB). […]

A PSD file is a native format used to save the output from the Adobe Photoshop software. It can include several layers such as image layers, adjustments, layer masks, keywords, file information, annotations, and others as available in the software. It has a maximum height and width of 30,000 pixels, and the size doesn’t exceed […]